Right-wing populists thrive in a culture of tense polarization. We shouldn’t help them.

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Samuel Moyn‘Is “normalization” of populists the biggest threat, or should we also fear the hysteria of populists’ opponents? And can the forms of resistance that worked against dictatorships work against democratically elected illiberal governments today?‘
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In the second decade of the twenty-first century, we are not yet done with the ghosts and demons of the twentieth. Even as the great cataclysms of the “terrible century” recede in time, recent years have given rise to a growing body of...

The chancellor’s inability to form a coalition government could push continental elites to become more accountable to the public.

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Samuel Moyn‘What will save the liberal order will be the successful integration of concerns that its leaders have dismissed or ignored back into normal political debate, an end to “no-choice politics.”’ @DouthatNYT@Yascha_Mounk
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Wars of Law. In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for the commencement, conduct, and conclusion of wars over the course of the past one hundred fifty years.After a brief...